Sham Collection

Grenadier Guards at a sham fight (training), moving up to support the fighting line. 1896

The House of Many Windows, Nunnery House, Arthington, Wharfdale, Yorkshire, England. Many of the windows are a sham, having been bricked up at the time of the Window Tax. Date: 1960s

Comic postcard, Man with line of fish he didn t catch Date: 20th century

KIN-SHAM HOUSE
Kin-Shan a house in Nunthorpe, Yorkshire Date: 1911

Arthur Conan Doyle with fairies
Cottingley Fairy Case - William Marriotts fake photo of Arthur Conan Doyle with cut out fairies. Date: 1921

German dummy tanks on parade, 1932
German tanks on parade: an imposing Reichswehr display. The tanks are dummies made of sheet iron and pasteboard fitted over motor cars, used for training purposes. 1932

Nicholas Hart, the Great Sleeper
Nicholas Hart, known as the Great Sleeper, who slept from 5 to 11 August 1711, though he was suspected of shamming with a view to earning money. Date: 1711

A Sham Castle / Folly (only a frontage), Bath. Date: 1990s

The Town, Bath, Somerset, England. View from Sham Castle Date: 1920s

The hoax Captain of K�ick
The sham Captain of K� ick and his triumph of genius. 1. the sham captain signing the receipt for the municipal money; 2

Cottingley Fairy Case - Night Light
An Advert for the Nighlight supposedly used by the Cottingley Fairy children to forge the photos they produced. Date: December 1921

The Sham Fight at Scarva. Moore, James MD 1819 - 1883

A false Paris outside Paris: A city created to be bombed, 1920
A page from the Illustrated London News, 1920, illustrating a sham Paris, created to trick German pilots flying at night into thinking they were bombing Paris during World War One

Dede, Near Tarabulus
Dede, on the coast of Lebonon near Tarabulus ash Sham (formerly Tripolis). A British vessel is anchored in the roadstead

Sham German Tanks
Forbidden real tanks under the terms of the Versailles peace treaty the German army parades & manoeuvres with sham ones

Reishwehr / Sham Weapons
The Reichwehr (the German army) manoeuvres with sham weapons. Germany had been stripped of most of its military power under the Treaty of Versailles. Date: September 1926

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